The top court noted that such records relating to temple lands can indicate longstanding possession, enjoyment of rights, and performance of temple services.

The sinking of the IRIS Dena underscores the fact that navies do not fight like armies — deploying men, machines and ordnance across a line on the land — but engage wherever the enemy might be found, writes a senior retired Navy officer.

The retirement fund body has carried out a KYC analysis of such inoperative accounts, as the pilot phase will see auto-settlement for only KYC and Aadhaar-seeded accounts.

Sectors such as steel, fertilisers, cement and power transmission depend heavily on imports of essential raw materials from West Asia.

At the annual Two Sessions meeting in Beijing, Chinese policymakers acknowledged low consumption and excess production. But a lot more needs to be done to manage these issues.

Calls for banning social media use for children are gaining traction across the world, with the precedent set by a landmark Australian legislation that went into effect last year.

As the Maharashtra Cabinet clears the Dharma Swatantrya Adhiniyam, a look at the structural similarities in anti-conversion laws across states: from definition to procedure to punishment.

The Nepal election results show the Rastriya Swatantra Party leading in several seats. Rapper-turned-mayor Balen Shah is set to become the country's Prime Minister. What's behind the party's strong performance?

Unlike Lok Sabha, whose members are directly elected by citizens aged 18 and above, Rajya Sabha members are elected by state Assembly members through the system of proportional representation by a single, transferable vote.

As the season-opener Australian Grand Prix gets underway on Sunday, here's a look at some of the most sweeping rule changes in the history of F1

Ranjit Rae, former Ambassador to Nepal, speaks to The Indian Express about what the results of the Nepal parliamentary election signify, the way forward for the new Nepal government, and what India can expect in its relations with Nepal

There are several instances where chief ministers were missing from the official reception of the President, Vice-President and Prime Minister, but West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee not nominating even a minister to receive President Droupadi Murmu…

The data also shows how some demographics can be more at risk than others. Workers in the most AI-exposed professions differ significantly from those in unexposed roles.

Although a falling total fertility rate is generally a sign of development and prosperity, fewer children being born could have economic consequences.

Maharashtra is not an outlier, and the increasing trend of states issuing loan waivers has long-term implications, including for the farmers themselves.

By allowing OpenAI to monopolise the Pentagon’s AI contracts, Anthropic appears to have cemented itself as the strictly neutral, sovereign architecture globally.

The lawsuit claims that the Google chatbot convinced the deceased that it was a sentient entity trapped inside a digital system and that he had been chosen to help “free” it.

Every week, we recap highlights of the news from China. This edition looks at China’s reaction to events concerning Iran, signals from a key policy meeting and the latest in the state’s ongoing ‘anti-corruption’ purge.

The strike on the compound in Tehran was emblematic of the muddled reality of the war’s first week: a withering air campaign by US and Israeli forces against an overwhelmed enemy, but few answers about what victory might look like.

India’s food security is heavily tied to fertiliser material supplies from West Asia. The consolation is that stocks are comfortable for now and the next crop season is three months away

Historian of Islam Faisal Devji analyses the response in the Muslim world to the US-Israeli war on Iran, and of the likely future now of the political project that was begun by the Islamic Revolution of 1979